Aaron Thomas, the accused East Coast Rapist, has been extradited from Connecticut to Virginia.
A small plane that carried Thomas from his hometown of New Haven, Conn., landed at the Manassas Regional Airport Tuesday afternoon.
DNA evidence links Thomas, 40, to attacks on 17 women beginning in 1997, according to prosecutors. A judge in New Haven agreed on Monday to let Virginia be the first state to put him on trial. Prince William County police officers took him into custody.
Thomas pleaded not guilty in March to a 2007 rape in Connecticut, but is suspected of six attacks in Virginia, where he faces the possibility of multiple life sentences. Among his alleged victims are two teenagers who were sexually assaulted while trick-or-treating in Dale City in 2009.
The rapes and other attacks took place over a decade in states from Connecticut to Virginia.
According to Prince William County police spokesman Officer Jonathan Perok, Thomas will have his first court appearance Wednesday morning.
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